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Alert Filters Add-on Changelog

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Changelog

All notable changes to this add-on will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog.

26 - 2025-12-15

Changed

  • Update the automation framework template and help to include missing fields (ruleName and methods).
  • Update minimum ZAP version to 2.17.0.

25 - 2025-11-04

Changed

  • Include String as supported type for the Automation Framework alertFilter job’s ruleId field.

24 - 2025-06-20

Changed

  • Use the alert reference for statistics.
  • Workaround core issue that prevents the filters to be correctly applied (Issue 8888).

Added

  • Added parameter descriptions for the ZAP API.

23 - 2025-01-09

Changed

  • Update minimum ZAP version to 2.16.0.
  • Fields with default or missing values are omitted for the alertFilter job in saved Automation Framework plans.
  • Depend on Passive Scanner add-on (Issue 7959).

22 - 2024-10-07

Fixed

  • Handle deleted alerts gracefully.

21 - 2024-05-07

Changed

  • Update minimum ZAP version to 2.15.0.

20 - 2024-04-02

Added

  • Video link in help for Automation Framework job.

Changed

  • Reword label in the automation job to prevent any confusion between the Alert Filters and the Alerts.
  • Maintenance changes.

19 - 2023-11-16

Changed

  • Allow to filter by alert reference (Issue 7438).
  • Allow to specify custom IDs through the GUI.
  • Maintenance changes.

Fixed

  • Do not fail to import or load a context with invalid alert filters.
  • Incorrect warning about ‘Unrecognised parameter’ for deleteGlobalAlerts.
  • Persist context filter data.

18 - 2023-10-12

Changed

  • Update minimum ZAP version to 2.14.0.
  • Maintenance changes.
  • Depend on newer version of Automation Framework add-on for the automation job (Related to Issue 7961).

17 - 2023-07-11

Changed

  • Update minimum ZAP version to 2.13.0.

Fixed

  • Allow to filter Directory Browsing (ID 0) alerts through the Automation Framework job, previously would report as a missing ID.

16 - 2023-06-12

Added

  • Allow to specify the HTTP method when filtering the alerts (Issue 5967).

Changed

  • Maintenance changes.

15 - 2023-01-03

Changed

  • Maintenance changes.

Fixed

  • Prevent exception if no display (Issue 3978).

14 - 2022-10-27

Changed

  • Update minimum ZAP version to 2.12.0.
  • When the automation Job is edited via UI Dialog then the status will be set to Not started
  • Maintenance changes.

Fixed

  • Include the ID when listing scan rules, to allow to differentiate scan rules with the same name (Issue 5699).

13 - 2021-10-06

Added

  • Stats for alerts changed

Changed

  • Update minimum ZAP version to 2.11.0.

Fixed

  • Dialogs being shown under the owning dialog / frame.

12 - 2021-09-16

Added

  • Support for the Automation Framework

11 - 2021-07-29

Changed

  • Update minimum ZAP version to 2.10.0.
  • Maintenance changes.

Added

  • API endpoints “applyAll”, “applyContext”, and “applyGlobal” to apply enabled Alert Filters to existing alerts (Issue 5966).
  • API endpoints “testAll”, “testContext”, and “testGlobal” to test enabled Alert Filters against existing alerts.

10 - 2020-01-17

Added

  • Add info and repo URLs.

9 - 2019-09-30

  • Added support for parameter regex, attack and evidence strings and regexes (Issue 5574)
  • Added support for global alert filters (Issue 5575)
  • Added option to create alert filters from alert
  • Added options to test which alerts will apply to and to actually apply them
  • Removed the “Context” from the add-on name
  • Promote Alert Filters addon to release status

8 - 2019-06-07

  • Correct required state of an API parameter.
  • Add description to API endpoints.

7 - 2018-02-15

  • Fix an exception when running ZAP in daemon mode (Issue 4405).

6 - 2017-11-27

  • Updated for 2.7.0.

5 - 2017-11-24

  • Dynamically unload the add-on.
  • Clear filters on session changes (Issue 3683).

4 - 2017-04-03

  • Minor functional improvement.

3 - 2016-06-02

  • Various minor UI improvements

2 - 2016-03-22

  • Updated to use alertIds from 2.4.3+
  • Misc minor bug fixes
  • HTML report reports the filtered false positives as true results (Issue 2311)
  • Promoted to beta and added icon
  • Various minor UI improvements

1 - 2015-09-07

  • First version